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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by zoidb »

mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

really like the clean design of the front-end, did you use anything special to create it?

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by beachstartup »

averageweather wrote: post #106
beachstartup wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is really cool. feature suggestions: * range of dates * zip code support cleanup thanks!

Thanks! Range is something I am trying to figure best how to do. I know how, but it is "expensive" in terms of API calls etc. Like would someone pay for this feature? Zipcode - Django has a great library so that is a next step for me.

this is out of left field but one thing i find myself searching for is sunset/sunrise times in the future, especially when traveling to different latitudes. could be a cool addition if this info is available.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by jimminy »

rileyt wrote: post #118

The things I have made that I am most proud of are: * https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked. * https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker. * http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.

I was looking for a Discover Weekly saver for a while, but resorted to using just screencapping the list, and saving the good tracks internally.

One issue with saving a Discover Weekly list to Spotify is that Discover Weekly is generated based on the content in the user's playlists. If you add a bunch of Discover Weekly lists that are 28/30 duds you're going to start reinforcing the system to generate crappy lists.

I think that's why Spotify doesn't allow saving them. They do allow saving of the topical Discover Daily, which reinforces my belief here.

Just thought I'd let you know about the possible issue with your product. Even though I absolutely love it and would use it.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by rsync »

rsync.net.

I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to.

If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like.

It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this:

  pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
... while simultaneously, someone else is doing this:

  zfs send tank/test@snap1 | ssh user@rsync.net zfs receive -s tank/test
It's been 15 years now since we started providing this service - almost 11 since we branded it rsync.net - and the first warrant canary is now 10 years old. This appears to be, for now, my lifes work.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by yoshyosh »

franciscop wrote: post #100

* Picnic CSS: a simple css library. I use it for both small projects from the CDN as medium projects with the SASS that I have carefully built: http://picnicss.com/ * cookies.js, a simple cookies library that uses a getter/setter style that I (and many people) like more. I'm considering taking the format and extend some other libraries like store.js. https://github.com/franciscop/cookies.js * drive-db, a tool that co…

love these small simple tools! Aligns well with the little projects I hack on at work

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by averageweather »

beachstartup wrote: post #142
averageweather wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Range is something I am trying to figure best how to do. I know how, but it is "expensive" in terms of API calls etc. Like would someone pay for this feature? Zipcode - Django has a great library so that is a next step for me.

this is out of left field but one thing i find myself searching for is sunset/sunrise times in the future, especially when traveling to different latitudes. could be a cool addition if this info is available.

Thank you. I believe I can get that ...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by soupshield »

mk4p wrote: post #116

https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts. It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" arch…

Have you ever had any false alarms with this?

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by zoidb »

augustflanagan wrote: post #113

I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too". We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

also https://wdt.io/cron-monitoring.html , I think it's been awhile for awhile.
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